{"id":64846,"date":"2012-11-16T10:15:57","date_gmt":"2012-11-16T08:15:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/?p=64846"},"modified":"2012-11-16T14:50:54","modified_gmt":"2012-11-16T12:50:54","slug":"lte-vulnerable-to-jamming","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/technology\/64846-lte-vulnerable-to-jamming.html","title":{"rendered":"LTE vulnerable to jamming"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><em><\/em><\/strong><a title=\"LTE\" href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/vb\/showthread.php\/367212-Long-term-Evolution-(LTE)\">LTE<\/a> networks are vulnerable to inexpensive jamming techniques, according to researchers at <a title=\"Virginia Tech\" href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/vb\/showthread.php\/483962-Virginia-Tech\">Virginia Tech<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The researchconducted showed that an inexpensive transmitter and a laptop could take down the high-speed wireless data networks.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;An example strategy would be to target specific control or synchronization signals, in order to increase the geographic range of the jammer and better avoid detection,&#8221; the Wireless @ Virginia Tech research group said.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The availability of low-cost and easy to use software-defined radios makes this threat even more realistic.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Jeff Reed, director of Virginia Tech\u2019s wireless research group, also explained that the vulnerabilities could be loopholes for attacks \u2013 ones which would be very difficult to defend against.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Picture a jammer that fits in a small briefcase that takes out miles of LTE signals &#8212; whether commercial or public safety,&#8221; said Reed.<\/p>\n<h5>Source: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.technologyreview.com\/news\/507381\/one-simple-trick-could-disable-a-citys-4g-phone-network\/\" target=\"_blank\">MIT Technology review <\/a><\/h5>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\">Related articles<\/h3>\n<p><strong><a title=\"Permanent Link to Mobile broadband coverage battle\" href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/cellular\/64462-mobile-broadband-coverage-battle.html\">Mobile broadband coverage battle<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><a title=\"Permanent Link to MTN LTE network plans revealed\" href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/cellular\/60639-more-mtn-lte-network-plans-revealed.html\">MTN LTE network plans revealed<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><a title=\"Permanent Link to LTE spectrum policy drafted\" href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/cellular\/60623-lte-spectrum-policy-drafted.html\">LTE spectrum policy drafted<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>High-speed LTE networks are vulnerable to low-cost jamming threats, according to new research<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":340900,"featured_media":29416,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[2542,461,16962,2490,16964,7979],"class_list":["post-64846","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-technology","tag-4g","tag-hacking","tag-jamming","tag-lte","tag-network-hacking","tag-quicknews"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64846"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/340900"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=64846"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64846\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":64894,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64846\/revisions\/64894"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/29416"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=64846"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=64846"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=64846"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}